Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Books are not, in a sense, taciturn. A quite simple gesture may suffice to bring forth a perfect volume of verbosity from the most unassuming. But they are at a disadvantage. A book is quite incapable of button holing you. At any moment it may be reduced to completely submissive silence by the reader's merely turn ing away his head. But does all this reticence imply a Spartan fortitude, hiding intolerable pain...
...humanitarian work. Dr Nansen received this year the Nobel Peace Prize and he is without doubt one of the foremost figures among the active workers of the league of Nations. He is said to be an excellent speaker and to possess a perfect command of English...
...that human dynamo is upstairs waiting for you!" Human dynamo, Blasco Ibanez certainly proved to be. Dark, white-skinned, brisk, almost jerky in his movements, with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...
...SWAN - Exceptional high comedy of Royalty by Franz Molnar brought beautifully to life by striking performance against a background perfect in color and detail...
...life's little ironies" that the twentieth century, so often hailed as the era of internationalism and more perfect accord between nations, should be marked by a recrudescence of high tariffs and protectionism which are the very antithesis of association. The present agitation for protection in England is merely part of a general movement which reached its apex in the Fordney Tariff...